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United States
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*laughs* Graceoutcast: Yes, I've got a lot of them listed at my website. Not many pictures, but it is the best list I've got available. I used to have them all catalogued neatly into a spreadsheet, but then my harddrive crashed and I lost everything that wasn't on the webpage. Feel free to take a look. As for knowing what I need? That's the scariest part. I can look at a coin,(type, not year or mint) and tell you if it's in my collection or not. And, I don't have a will as of yet. So, I guess there isn't any way to be on it. ;) Edited by ElleKitty
06/30/2007 05:55 am
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Rest in Peace
Australia
661 Posts |
Grace darling , did you mean charity or basket.
regards,
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  United States
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Bob I think at this point it's interchangeable.  |
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United States
2600 Posts |
Ha ha ha ha ha ha  Oh, you were talking about coins. Jim |
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France
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I had more than 2000 coins but I sold them. Now I buy only silver proof coins. I have 315 coins in silver and 4 or 5 in Cupro-Nickel
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United States
264 Posts |
I figure 4-5k right now. I just started to build an inventory of what coins I have. Just in the first small box I had 2x2s in I have over 400 coins. I have one safe devoted to nothing but my world coin collection. I just bought 10lbs of world coins that my daughter and I sorted out. Looking for some good deals to buy another 10 or so lbs. That isn't counting the paper currency I have from around the world.
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United Kingdom
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I would say 1,000 or less - that's only because I haven't had time to build it up yet!
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United States
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I'd say 4 to 5 thousand. I need a good foreign coin book so I know what I have.
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United States
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You could either take the long agonizing road of buying a book and cataloging all of them but I am always here for ya remember. Just send em my way and I'll do it all for free! I'll even pay shipping! Sadly though I would have to move and end my wonderful membership on this Forum.  |
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Egypt
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Germany
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Several hundred. But except for some non-euro countries in Europe, and the US (many) and Canada (to a lesser extent), I do not actively collect world coins. (Actually, when I travel to some country outside Euroland, I may well keep a type set of what I come across in circulation. But those pieces are rather souvenirs.  ) Christian |
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Israel
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I have a little over 1000 in uncirculated condition. All FAO coins issued between 1968 and 2000.
I also have a number of other coins including ancients but of course these are not uncirculated.
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Luxembourg
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I've got my collection in an Access database.
As I am collecting some countries by year and mint mark, it is difficult to decide the exact number of different types, some not having yet a KM number. I guess it's somewhere around 6000.
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United States
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That is an interesting question. I have not actually counted my non-US collection since I was in grade school. But I have 10 safe deposit boxes full of single and double row boxes index by country. These are the silver, gold and more valuable single coins. I would estimate there are 2,000 coins per box minimum. Then roughly 50 double boxes more at home which are junk foreign that fall in the "dollar" per coin range. Each box holds 300 coins so that is 15,000 stored in 2x2s. Then I have the bags and boxes of "junk" non-silver and other low value coins not in 2x2s. Most of those are unsearched. They weigh about 700 pounds (had to weigh them when I moved). So my best guess is over 50,000 coins, but possibly more.
I have a far better handle on my 8R Cap and Ray coins - the counterfeits number about 1,700 and the originals another 1,000. I have a complete index in a 3 ring binder with each coin listed by date and mint - each coin has an index number. If you include portrait 8Rs and other dollar sized coins from South America (not listed fully) it runs just over 3,000 coins. These are included in the items in the Bank. They completely fill just over one box. (Which is where I get my 2,000 coin per box minimum.)
In my bank, they have oversized boxes (originally intended for Bank Records but now surplus because of computers) these fit a double row 2 1/2 inch box in sideways perfectly. The boxes are 30" deep and 15x15 on the face. Back in New England, the Bank I used rented larger "lockers" 5 feet high, three feet deep and two feet wide which was far more convenient. I needed only one of those.
As I get older, I wonder what will become of this accumulation if I die suddenly?
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Czech Republic
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That's quite amazing, Bob. I would love to see your Mexican collection one day.  I own about 20 coins in my primary collection, not counting counterfeits. If I include my "odds and ends", the tally would be around 40. ~Roman |
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